Archive for August, 2008

ANA Multicultural Excellence Awards – Digital Media

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Hey, look at this! The ANA has added a Digital Media category to its Multicultural Excellence Awards. According to the ANA website, “Winners will be chosen based on creativity of the campaign and relevancy to the ethnic-targeted segment.” Entries are being accepted now, through August 29th. You can read about the awards and get entry [...]

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The Minority Majority

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

As I’m sure you’ve seen by now: All advertising is multicultural.

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Blogging and Video

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

One of my favorite blogs is EveryDayShouldBeSaturday. It’s about college football and funny as hell – two of my very favorite things. However, Orson (the blogger) has one annoying habit – about every 4th or 5th post he resorts to the blogging equivalent of mailing it in – he posts a video. Posting a video, [...]

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The Washington Examiner and the Death of Print

Monday, August 11th, 2008

The second thing I do every morning, after getting my coffee, is go out on my porch for my daily print-news-double: pick up the Wall Street Journal and throw away the Washington Examiner. I really hate the Washington Examiner. They deliver it to everyone in my neighborhood whether you want it or not. There are [...]

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The new “Minority Majority” reality

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

It’s official – the concept of “minority majority” markets has become a reality in 1 out of every 10 U.S. counties, according to a recently released U.S. Census Bureau report. CNN just ran a story on the data – which is very compelling. Leading the way is Los Angeles County, home to the 2nd largest [...]

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